Collect HN: Aprils Fools • Hacker News Board

stanleydrew wrote: post #143

Twilio's API now returns responses in morse code. Just append .morse to the end of any Twilio REST API URL to get the morse code representation. If you find a legitimate use for this, please let us know.

I would love to learn Morse code to use it for text messages. Not related to Twilio, but this reminded me. Maybe we could take care of two problems at once by hooking up a Morse code transcriber hooked up to a cell phone to the horn in every teenagers car :)

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by guruz » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 11:39 AM UTC

Hidden flags for Nokia's Qt: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/04/01/qt-hidden-gems/

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by FSecurePal » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 11:44 AM UTC

Hacker Group Changes Millions of Passwords to "password"; Only 38% of Users Notice http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002134.html

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by JonnieCache » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:04 PM UTC

eneveu wrote: post #138

meadhikari wrote: post #102

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What is hilarious?

Read "Today's featured article", the "Did you know..." part, and "Today's featured picture". Here is a screenshot of the page, in case you don't see the same / for future viewers: http://i.imgur.com/nGHhQ.png

The "today's featured article" bit is probably not a joke. 18th century london was actually like that.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by brlewis » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:16 PM UTC

marcamillion wrote: post #156

nfriedly wrote: post #69

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It works - I saw the lamas!

In all honesty, I am struggling to figure out if this is an April's Fools Joke in and of itself, or if this is legit. The comments definitely don't help much. Can someone just be explicit with it. I am not running FF, if that matters.

It's both. The "DNF" header can't be a serious proposal since it doesn't follow the convention of other HTTP headers. They're leaving "Do-Not-Fool" unused in case it later becomes a serious proposal. But it does actually send the header, so in that sense it's legit.

Announcement for our DNF support: http://ourdoings.com/2011-04-01

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by sid0 » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:25 PM UTC

brlewis wrote: post #169

marcamillion wrote: post #156

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In all honesty, I am struggling to figure out if this is an April's Fools Joke in and of itself, or if this is legit. The comments definitely don't help much. Can someone just be explicit with it. I am not running FF, if that matters.

It's both. The "DNF" header can't be a serious proposal since it doesn't follow the convention of other HTTP headers. They're leaving "Do-Not-Fool" unused in case it later becomes a serious proposal. But it does actually send the header, so in that sense it's legit. Announcement for our DNF support: http://ourdoings.com/2011-04-01

> The "DNF" header can't be a serious proposal since it doesn't follow the convention of other HTTP headers.

Why do you say that? The Do Not Track header (which is of course quite serious) is "DNT".